The combat boots stepped on the muddy water, causing a circle of dirty water splashes.
Lao Yi led several combat team members to the entrance of Water Dragon Club.
Standing at the door was a tall man with a beard, wearing a V-neck short-sleeved shirt, his chest was wide open, and his chest hair was exposed.
Seeing Lao Yi and the others approaching, the man in charge had a solemn expression on his face.
"Leaders, I wonder if you are coming to our Water Dragon Club..."
He bowed slightly and asked Lao Yi, who was walking over, neither humble nor haughty.
"Who are you?" Lao Yi glanced at him, walked under the eaves, and asked.
"My younger brother is Zhou Feilong, the president of the Water Dragon Society. What do you call me?"
"My surname is Yi, where does your wine come from?"
As Lao Yi said this, he opened the door and walked in.
As soon as you enter, you will see several tables made of wood that serve as the bar.
There were more than a dozen people sitting inside, drinking wine. The wine in their glasses was transparent and colorless.
Behind the bar, there are several white plastic buckets with unknown liquids inside.
Above the plastic bucket, there are more than twenty bottles of liquor and two bottles of foreign wine.
The writing on the bottle can no longer be seen clearly, but it can be seen from the bottle that there is a bottle of Niulanshan.
"Leader Yi, we got this wine when we were collecting supplies outside..." Zhou Feilong followed behind Lao Yi and explained quickly.
On the wooden stand, there happened to be a person holding a plastic bucket and pouring one-fifth of the transparent liquid into the measuring cup.
Use a spoon to scoop out another spoonful of water from behind and shake it.
Lao Yi pointed to the plastic buckets and asked, "What's in the plastic buckets?"
"that..."
"95% industrial alcohol, with some water added, it can't be the same as it is now."
industrial alcohol?
Generally speaking, industrial alcohol usually contains methanol and other impurities. These ingredients are harmful to the human body and therefore cannot be used for human disinfection or drinking.
Moreover, industrial alcohol is widely used in printing, chemical synthesis and other industries as a cleaning agent, solvent and other purposes.
Drinking this stuff is not good for your health and can even cause formaldehyde poisoning.
The smell is very strong and the taste is great, but the alcohol content is high and you can still get drunk after drinking it.
For survivors in the last days who want to temporarily forget their worries, whether it tastes good or whether it will be poisoned is not such an important consideration.
The wine here is also very expensive, and they only accept food in exchange.
As for the Niulanshan and Red Star Erguotou wines displayed above, not many survivors can afford them, and they are just placed here to serve as a facade.
thump!
A man sitting there drinking fainted and fell to the ground.
I don't know if he was poisoned or drunk.
When Zhou Feilong saw this scene, he quickly winked at his two men and asked them to carry him to the room next to him.
"Leader, sometimes some people get drunk..."
Lao Yi was not in the mood to listen to his explanation. After looking around for a while, he turned and walked towards the door.
Back on the off-road vehicle, he felt extremely heavy and complicated.
"Drive back to Oil City."
....
The vehicle started and drove towards Oil City.
Keiko from Tingfeng Tower walked out at this time and ran to the bar opposite.
"Boss Long, do you think Oil City will have any objections to us opening these?"
Zhou Feilong frowned and said:
"We haven't violated the regulations, so we probably won't."
.....
Oil City.
After Lao Yi came back from the trading market, he immediately ran to the conference room.
"Where's the minister?" Lao Yi, who looked around the conference room but didn't see his third uncle, asked the operator in the conference room.
"The minister has gone to the oil well mining site. Captain Yi, you should be able to find him there."
"good."
He had to react to the minister in person about what he had just observed in the trading market.
The area of Oil City is not large, only two hundred meters from the conference room to the oil well extraction point.
Lao Yi ran on foot and arrived at the oil well mining site.
The entire oil well mining site is enclosed by walls and has only one entrance.
During the heavy rain, there was a guard sitting in the sentry box.
"Is the minister in there?"
"Yes, on the middle platform." The guard stood up immediately when he saw Lao Yi and pointed inside.
After bypassing the entrance railing, Lao Yi walked straight towards the oil well platform inside.
From a distance, I saw my third uncle talking to Ling Feng.
Come closer.
"Very good, keep up this productivity level."
"Yes, minister, don't worry, we are all professionals."
The third uncle saw Lao Yi standing nearby waiting, so he said to Ling Feng: "Okay, then you go and do your work first."
Ling Feng also noticed that Lao Yi seemed to have something to do with the minister, so he wisely left.
"What's the matter?" The third uncle turned to look at Lao Yi, with some doubts in his eyes.
He just heard the sirens from the trading market.
"Minister, the situation in the trading market is a bit serious."
Lao Yi came closer and continued:
"People have died. I didn't count them carefully, but there must be a lot of people who died..."
After hearing this, the third uncle waved his hand and walked towards the oil warehouse.
"Don't get caught in the rain here, go inside and chat."
Lao Yi stopped talking and followed his third uncle in.
"What's going on? Is there another fight?" Third Uncle asked.
While taking out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, he threw one to Lao Yi and lit it for himself.
Lao Yi took it and held it like this.
"I just went to the residences of more than a dozen survivors in the trading bazaar and found that many survivors inside had no food, and some even starved to death."
"In a building in the South District, most of the survivors inside are too hungry to move..."
"Moreover, there is a red light district in the trading market, which is controlled by a force from Tingfeng Tower. They have not violated the regulations, but more and more survivors have no way out, so we do this..."
"The gap between the rich and the poor is huge. Some medium and large forces have hoarded food and various supplies, and even opened bars... Being able to afford alcohol shows that some forces still have a lot of supplies..."
....
Lao Yi told his third uncle truthfully what he had just seen.
The third uncle did not interrupt him throughout the whole process, but listened quietly.
The cigarette in my hand was also finished.
The third uncle wanted to take another one, but he hesitated for a moment and did not do so.
"So after your research just now, what do you think?"
Lao Yi sighed and said:
"I'm wondering if we can help them, but we can't give them food directly..."
"I wonder if we can strike at those forces with abundant supplies to balance things out."
The third uncle shook his head.
"no."
After coughing, the third uncle continued:
"They didn't violate the regulations, but if we just plundered their supplies, wouldn't that be a slap in the face? If we don't abide by the regulations ourselves, we'd lose credibility."
"this matter...."
The third uncle frowned deeply and involuntarily took out another cigarette and lit it.
This incident reminded him of a plan that Li Yu had discussed with him before.
Before the natural disaster came, Li Yu had predicted it.
Too many people in trading bazaars and oil cities will inevitably attract a terrifying number of zombies.
It is foreseeable that many survivors do not store enough food, so they can go to the trading market to resist zombies in exchange for a certain amount of food.
In this way, you can not only protect your own life safety, but also give full play to the strength of these survivors.
now.
The tide of zombies has not decreased at all, and the petroleum array consumes huge amounts of oil.
Even the current daily production of oil cannot withstand consumption.
Supply is less than demand.
Although they have been hoarding oil for a long time, they can only hold on for less than a month at most.
More importantly, oil is a scarce non-renewable resource. The more it is used, the fewer reserves there are in the oil fields.
In Oil City, there are so many cars in the headquarters base that need oil. What will happen if they run out?
They didn't just discover this one oil well, they also discovered two others, but the damage was extremely serious.
Continuous natural disasters caused the entire pipelines of these two oil wells to collapse.
Repairing takes a lot of time and is even more difficult than rebuilding. It requires countless resources and energy and is not worth it.
Petroleum is consumed in large quantities every moment, and it burns to the point of distress.
Without oil, all the tanks, helicopters, and armored vehicles they have now will become a pile of scrap metal.
Think of this.
The third uncle regained his divergent thinking and handed the diesel lighter to Lao Yi.
"Okay, I understand, now you go and notify Ju Tianrui, Lao Xie, Dongtai and the others to come to the conference room for a meeting. I first need to find out how much food we still have..."
Lao Yi lit up the cigarette he had been holding for more than ten minutes, took a deep breath, then nodded and said: "Okay."
...
Ten minutes later.
The conference room was full of people.
The third uncle looked at everyone and motioned for Chang Sheng at the door to close the door.
Then he looked at Lao Yi: "Lao Yi, tell everyone what you saw in the trading market just now."
Lao Yi put down his drinking glass, touched his nose and stood up.
"The alarm bell rang in the trading market just now. I took people there and found..."
.....
Lao Yi spent a few minutes and told everyone the general situation.
After Lao Yi finished speaking, the third uncle knocked on the table and looked at Dongtai:
"Dongtai, please report on the food supplies in the Oil City warehouse."
The grain warehouses and other supplies in Oil City have always been mainly managed by Dongtai, and he knows this best.
Dongtai stood up, put down his notebook and said:
"In the warehouse, there are 8 tons of rice and 3 tons of corn..."
"Coupled with the individual combat rations from Wushi, it is enough for all of us in Oil City to last for 6 to 8 months."
There are now two to three thousand people gathered in Oil City.
There are not only Ju Tianrui and others who have been stationed here, but also additional support personnel sent from the headquarters, Sanshu, Lao Xie and others who have retreated from the north.
After the third uncle listened, he said to everyone:
"Everyone heard what Lao Yi said just now."
"Now many survivors in the trading market are facing the crisis of starving to death. Although oil extraction has now resumed, we also have a certain amount of oil reserves..."
"However, the current oil consumption is too great. According to the current consumption of the oil array, we will not be able to last even one month."
"So, I think we can follow the plan we made before: recruiting survivors to go up the wall to stop zombies in exchange for a certain share of food.
In this way, we can not only save oil, increase the time of resisting zombies, but also provide some help to the survivors in the trading bazaar, so as not to let them starve to death."
"If you have any ideas, please tell me now!"
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but no one spoke for a while.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Ju Tianrui was the first to stand up and support Third Uncle's decision:
"I agree with the minister's suggestion, but what is the approximate ration of food to be given to those survivors?"
The third uncle thought for a while, looked at Ju Tianrui and said:
"When we were building the construction site before, didn't we also recruit some survivors to build the wall? Just give them according to that quota."
There is actually very little food that survivors can get, but even so, many survivors still join.
According to this quota, they don't need to spend much food to recruit these low-level survivors to fight for them.
It can also save valuable oil.
In short, it is now about exchanging food for oil, and at the same time helping those survivors at the bottom, killing two birds with one stone.
When Ju Tianrui heard what his third uncle said, he nodded and sat down.
Lao Xie raised his hand beside him.
"explain."
Lao Xie said:
"Um...I just heard that there is a bar in the trading market?"
"Let me think about it, we have provided them with a business place after all, so we have to pay some venue fees anyway."
"I suggest we let them hand over part of their profits to us."
The words just fell.
Lao Yi, who was sitting next to Lao Xie, also echoed:
"I think this proposal is a good one..."
"I agree too."
....
The third uncle heard that most of the people present agreed, so he said:
"Okay, then it's settled."
"Two things."
"1. Xiao Jun, take people to the trading market to recruit survivors. Those survivors who are willing to climb the wall should be registered. Give them some food first, otherwise they will not have the strength to fight."
"In addition, Xie Changshan quickly used the previous building materials to make spear points made of several meters long steel pipes and round steel, and then distributed them to the survivors who climbed up the wall as their weapons.
As for the zombies that cannot be killed by stabbing them, let the guards deal with them; in addition, let the guards watch from behind to prevent the zombies from coming."
"The second thing."
"Lao Yi, take some people to find those powerful people in the business and ask them to hand over a certain percentage of their profits as food as venue fees."
"yes."
"yes."
"yes."
Everyone whose name was called stood up one after another.
"By the way, Dongtai, you will also dispatch some food from the granary. When the time comes, it will be transported to the trading market and distributed to those survivors who are willing to climb the wall to resist the zombies."
"No problem." Dongtai nodded quickly.
"Um."
The third uncle stood up and said, "Let's do it quickly. The meeting is over!"